http://www.pvas.com/photos/bristlenose.jpg

Hang on.. just notice my bristle nose is not brown like most the ones ive seen, its like this bristlenose pic above, it is like black or very dark black-brown. The patches look like the fish above. I thought my fish was that type of above bristlenose but ...

I went to a private breeder brought a pleco and a bristle nose, the bristle nose is about 8-12cm roughly. Both tanks had all common plecos with 2 cichlids and other one all bristlenose, all the plecos seems pretty active swimming around etc and few had some of their fins bite off by the looks of it ...